Comments on: SMS.ac spamming new members http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/02/smsac_spamming_new_members/ Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary Wed, 23 May 2012 05:24:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: J http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/02/smsac_spamming_new_members/comment-page-1/#comment-108 J Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:38:47 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/02/smsac_spamming_new_members/#comment-108 I keep getting spammed by this stuff to. But I have a plan. Let's fight fire with fire, if we all work together it will work fantastically. Let's use their own software against them. Step 1: Create a new hotmail account Step 2: Add the following e-mail addresses, as found on the SMS.ac corporate website, to the address book of your new account sponsorships@corp.sms.ac hr@corp.sms.ac bizdev@corp.sms.ac partnerinfo@corp.sms.ac prcomm@corp.sms.ac customercare@corp.sms.ac Step 3: Sign up for SMS.ac using you're newly created account Now they will be spamming themselves. The more people we get to do this the better. Sure they will eventually block all such e-mails in their system, but that's the future, let's punish them today. I keep getting spammed by this stuff to. But I have a plan. Let’s fight fire with fire, if we all work together it will work fantastically. Let’s use their own software against them.

Step 1: Create a new hotmail account

Step 2: Add the following e-mail addresses, as found on the SMS.ac corporate website, to the address book of your new account
sponsorships@corp.sms.ac
hr@corp.sms.ac
bizdev@corp.sms.ac
partnerinfo@corp.sms.ac
prcomm@corp.sms.ac
customercare@corp.sms.ac

Step 3: Sign up for SMS.ac using you’re newly created account

Now they will be spamming themselves. The more people we get to do this the better. Sure they will eventually block all such e-mails in their system, but that’s the future, let’s punish them today.

]]> By: M. Mosiek http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/02/smsac_spamming_new_members/comment-page-1/#comment-107 M. Mosiek Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:42:08 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/02/smsac_spamming_new_members/#comment-107 I believe that sms is spamming, even under the quite narrow definition in the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. My situation is different than those of the other posters, I suspect, in that I was foolish enough to give sms my username/password, but I didn't agree to the terms and conditions. Here is my story: I naively followed the link I had gotten in one of their emails, and gave the site my email address and password. Only when I was prompted to create a username/password for the sms site did I get wise. So I bailed out before agreeing to the Terms and Conditions. However, that didn't stop them from harvesting my address book. But, by not agreeing to the T&C, I was effectively denying them consent to raid my address book. (This is actually a federal crime much worse than CAN-SPAM violations, I think. Moreover, it is expressly prohibited under the Hotmail T&C.) So they send emails out to some people in the address book. I believe that Sec 5(b) of CAN-SPAM expressly prohibits the non-consensual harvesting of email addresses from a "protected computer" (i.e., the hotmail server). Anyway, I'd love to get my account deleted. But guess what? I need to agree to their T&C before their page will let me enter the site! I'm thinking of writing to the corporate department and asking to be removed. Or maybe I should just file a complaint with the ftc, or something. I am convinced that this company has broken several laws (at least with respect to my own situation). Any thoughts? I believe that sms is spamming, even under the quite narrow definition in the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. My situation is different than those of the other posters, I suspect, in that I was foolish enough to give sms my username/password, but I didn’t agree to the terms and conditions. Here is my story:

I naively followed the link I had gotten in one of their emails, and gave the site my email address and password. Only when I was prompted to create a username/password for the sms site did I get wise. So I bailed out before agreeing to the Terms and Conditions.

However, that didn’t stop them from harvesting my address book. But, by not agreeing to the T&C, I was effectively denying them consent to raid my address book. (This is actually a federal crime much worse than CAN-SPAM violations, I think. Moreover, it is expressly prohibited under the Hotmail T&C.)

So they send emails out to some people in the address book. I believe that Sec 5(b) of CAN-SPAM expressly prohibits the non-consensual harvesting of email addresses from a “protected computer” (i.e., the hotmail server).

Anyway, I’d love to get my account deleted. But guess what? I need to agree to their T&C before their page will let me enter the site! I’m thinking of writing to the corporate department and asking to be removed. Or maybe I should just file a complaint with the ftc, or something. I am convinced that this company has broken several laws (at least with respect to my own situation).

Any thoughts?

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